Infrastructure

News: Augustow by-pass ‘illegal’ but campaigners fear wetlands threatened by new scheme

The highest administrative court in Poland has ruled that the controversial Augustow by-pass planned to cut through pristine and protected wetlands in the Rospuda Valley is illegal. But environmental groups are warning that the Polish government is trying to 're-brand' the route under a different road scheme.

October 15, 2008 | Infrastructure | T&E Bulletin

News: EIA cut down

The Spanish government says it wants to cut back on environmental impact assessments to help the construction industry.

October 15, 2008 | Infrastructure | T&E Bulletin

News: Even urban road projects must have environmental assessment

The European Court of Justice has confirmed a decision made earlier this year that urban road building schemes are covered by EU environmental impact assessment rules and cannot be exempted by splitting them into several smaller projects.

September 16, 2008 | Infrastructure | Public & Urban | T&E Bulletin

News: Money for rail

The Commission should give at least 40% of transport infrastructure funding to rail projects in order to boost railfreight, says the European Parliament’s transport committee.

September 16, 2008 | Infrastructure | Railways | T&E Bulletin

News: Anger at new Baltic bridge

Environmental groups have reacted angrily to the news that Denmark and Germany have signed an agreement to build the Fehmarn bridge, a 20km crossing over the Baltic Sea linking the two countries.

September 16, 2008 | Infrastructure | T&E Bulletin

News: EIA for urban roads

Work on the northern stretch of the M30 motorway around Madrid is being held up following an opinion from the European Court of Justice that says urban road schemes must be subjected to Environmental Impact Assessment.

July 22, 2008 | Infrastructure | Public & Urban | T&E Bulletin

News: EU money putting at risk protected nature site

A new analysis suggests that EU funding for transport projects is putting at risk more than a thousand nature areas in Europe that are supposedly under EU protection.

June 16, 2008 | General Environment | Infrastructure | T&E Bulletin

News: EIA rules

A third of transport projects in Poland are breaking EU rules, according to a government spokesman.

May 14, 2008 | Infrastructure | T&E Bulletin

News: Nature sites at risk from EU transport projects

Over a thousand protected nature areas in Europe are under serious threat from high-profile EU-funded transport infrastructure projects according to a new report by BirdLife International, RSPB and other environmental groups [1], which was presented in the European Parliament today.

May 13, 2008 | Infrastructure | Lorries & Road Freight | Railways | Press Releases

News: 13/05/2008 - Transport and Natura 2000

On 13 May 2008 at the European Parliament in Brussels, T&E together with BirdLife International, CEE Bankwatch and EEB launched a groundbreaking report on unifying EU transport and nature conservation policy.

April 23, 2008 | Events | Infrastructure | Lorries & Road Freight | Railways

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